Al, Many thanks for the offer of help. I have sent you two emails with different pte files attached, along with an explanation. For those who might be interested, or experiencing similar problems, here is the text of the second email; I have sent you another pte file. In the first one I found that I had two buttons in the same spot. Thinking that this might be the problem I redid the show and created a new pte file. Same problem with running though. However it is not consistent. I ran the slideshow and it went through three sessions and stopped on the fourth. I then copied this file to my laptop and it would only run once, so, I'm confused. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Noelb